Welcome to English ILA - Introduction to Language Arts!
Week 1 - August 17-20 - Know the Show:
Iowa Core: Listen for information & understandingReal-World Application: Mastering these listening & interaction skills will help you get along in school, home, work, and society.
>Tuesday 8/17:
Grab a notebook/journal from your class box; grab a few markers, colors, etc. to decorate the front sheet of your journal (including your name); and then introduce yourself in your journal, telling what you feel is important for me to know.
*Mrs. Hartwig's Introduction
*View and discuss semester schedules, normal class routines, wiki, and work expectations
*Discuss classroom integrity
*Read aloud and share introductions.
*Look for independent reading book
>Wednesday 8/18:
Describe what you feel respect is all about. Use specific examples - words, actions, thoughts - of what is and is not respectful to you. What speech and behavior help you feel respected? What speech and behavior make you feel disrespected?
>Discuss group discussion/group work & its significance in this class
>Community building activities to determine class rules
>Each group come up with a typical situation that happens in school each week and design a role play with both a respect and disrespect outcome - then discuss different actions
>Thursday 8/19:
Silent Reading 10 minutes
Continue community building to determine class rules
>Consider what “rules,” as society defines them, are helpful in creating a good, safe, comfortable, and productive classroom?
>In groups, decide what you would like included in our classroom agreement.
Which “behaviors” from above? What about student-to-teacher expectations?
What about teacher-to-student expectations?
>Compose & print out contract of class rules for students/parents to sign.
DUE TOMORROW - Classroom Compact - Everyone bringing back their classroom compact signed by both student and parent will get the full 10 points AND a TREAT!
>Friday 8/20:
Introduction
Iowa Core: Use a variety of skills and strategies to comprehend complex nonfiction & informational text.Real-World Application: Developing reading strategies and your reading-writing connections improves all your comprehension skills, whether it is in English, math, history, newspaper reading, work, or whatever you read and write about in the real world.
Iowa Core: 1) Use an effective writing process, 2) Write on demand, and 3) Adhere to conventions generally established in spelling, punctuation, grammar, usage, syntax, and style Real-World Application: Developing and mastering grammar and writing skills increases your ability to effectively communicate in all other classes, in addition to work, civic, and personal life situations both now and as an adult.
>Monday 8/23:
"What Adults Can Learn From Babies"
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Iowa Core: Use a variety of skills and strategies to comprehend complex nonfiction & informational text.Real-World Application: Developing reading strategies and your reading-writing connections improves all your comprehension skills, whether it is in English, math, history, newspaper reading, work, or whatever you read and write about in the real world.
>Work on R.A.F.T. writing assignment from yesterday
R.A.F.T. writing assignment DUE TODAY
Week 3 - August 30-September 3 - COMMUNICATION:
>Monday 8/30:
"Hi! How May I Help You?"
J: When you deal with a customer service representative (either in person or over the phone), what are the ways that person helps you? What does he or she do that irritate you and make the situation worse?
>Communication Activity
>First, put pairs back to back on floor, one with a copy of a drawing and one with a white board and marker. The one with the drawing has to explain only verbally how to draw the drawing.
>Communication Assessment: What did you discover helped you communicate effectively? What did you discover hurt your effective communication?
>Tuesday 8/31:
Silent Reading 10 minutes
>Brainstorm mini-lesson >R.A.F.T. workshop
>Wednesday 9/1:
What different ways do you personally communicate (text, phone [cell or land], email, twitter, snail-mail, notes, heart-to-heart)? Whom do you communicate with and why? What is your favorite form of communication?
DUE FRIDAY - Create your own model of the communication process that incorporates all the elements of communication and indicates the process (continuous) aspects of communication. Your model should be a specific example of a communication situation. You may draw, cut out magazine pictures, use photos - your choice.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Michael Amstein, Atlantic Community School District Superintendent
DUE TODAY: Communication Process Model Project
>Share models with class
Week 4 - September 7-10 - LISTENING SKILLS:
>Monday 9/6: LABOR DAY
>Tuesday 9/7:
"Movies for Everyone"
>Communication Process Workshop
>Wednesday 9/8:
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Good Listening Skills
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>Share: What makes a good listener?
What are things a good listener should do?
What are things that bad listeners do that make other people feel badly?
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>Try it Out:
Listener: Actively listen.
Speaker: Tell about a success you have experienced.
Observer: Make note of active listening skills used and give feedback.
>Thursday 9/9:
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Good Listening Skills
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>Try it Out:
Listener: Students actively listen to Mrs. Hartwig to see if what I'm saying verbally matches what I say non-verbally.
>How important is it that our verbal and our non-verbal match?
>Do we understand a speaker better if their non-verbal matches their verbal?
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>Try it Out:
Listener: Actively listen and then respond with an "I" response.
Speaker: Tell about the biggest challenge you faced in middle school.
Observer: Make note of active listening skills used and give feedback.
>Friday 9/10:
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
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>Try it Out:
Male/Female Listeners: Actively listen and write down your understanding.
Male/Female Speakers: Explain what your usual day consists of (your class schedule and what you usually do after school until bedtime).
>What differences do you see in the responses of the guys versus the gals?
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>Share: Did the differences Tracey talked about show up in the responses we got in our class ?
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>Share: Why does empathy matter?
Week 5 - September 13-17 - DYNAMICS OF GROUP COMMUNICATIONS:
>Monday 9/13:
"Wired& Tired"
>Group Dynamics - Internet Social Networking: Is it different on the web?
>Listening Skills Review
*Communication process
*Strong Listening Skills
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>Tuesday 9/14:
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Group Dynamics - School: From a Student Perspective
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>Think about the kind of listening skills you use in group discussions that are different than or similar to those you use when you are listening and speaking one-on-one. Describe 3 strong communication skills you use in group discussions in class and explain whether they are different than or similar to those skills you would use in one-on-one communication. (Use complete sentences.)
>Think about some feelings you experience when you are in whole class or small group discussions in school. Describe 3 examples of communication (either good or bad) that happen in class discussions and describe how they make you feel. (Use complete sentences.) >Think about some feelings you experience when you are in whole group situations in a school setting but not in a class. Describe 3 examples of communication (either good or bad) that happen in non-class situations in school and describe how they make you feel (e.g. lunch, class meetings, study hall, passing time). (Use complete sentences.)
>Think about some feelings you experience when you are in group discussions in a new place or one you are not used to. Evaluate and explain how you normally communicate and interact with people in places either new to you or places you are not used to or not comfortable in. (Use at least 3 complete sentences.)
>Wednesday 9/15:
Complete your questions from yesterday's Group Dynamics assignment.
>Group Dynamics - Social: The Roles We Play
>GUEST SPEAKER: JUDY KAY
*GATE KEEPER - keeps communication moving; invites input from different group members; asks others to "hold that thought" to give others a chance to talk
*ENCOURAGER - offers compliments; encourages people to speak up; offers praise
>Read Aloud Richard Wright's "The Night I Won the Rights to the Streets of Memphis"
>Continuing to Get the GIST
Wednesday, 9-22
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Read Aloud Richard Wright's "The Night I Won the Rights to the Streets of Memphis"
>Continuing to Get the GIST
Thursday, 9-23
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Summaries of "The Night I Won the Rights to the Streets of Memphis"
Write about a time in your life when you had to do something difficult.
Friday, 9-24
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
Grammar Games
Week 7 - Sept. 27- Oct. 1 - Personal Narratives: Your Own Story
Monday, 9-27
Search for and choose an article that is of interest to you in your life and be ready to explain how that topic reflects you.
>Richard Wright's Personal Narrative: Review his story & learn more
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Tuesday, 9-28
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Preparing your ROUGH DRAFT of your own personal narrative:
Paragraph 1: Introducing yourself
Paragraph 2: Things you like to do
Paragraph 3: Your family
Paragraph 4: Your best friend
Wednesday, 9-29
What event or person in your life do you feel had a big influence in making you who you are today? Explain why?
>Your Own Personal Narrative ROUGH DRAFT:
Paragraph 5: What you look like
Paragraph 6: Your home
Paragraph 7: An important memory of a person or an event that has influenced who you are today
Thursday, 9-30
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Your Own Personal Narrative:
Paragraph 8: Your Future (marriage, career, home, life, activities, etc.)
Friday, 10-1
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Your Own Personal Narrative: Autobiographical Poem
Line 1: Your first name
Line 2: Four traits that describe you
Line 3: Sibling of...
Line 4: Who likes (people, ideas)
Line 5: Who feels...
Line 6: Who needs....
Line 7: Who gives...
Line 8: Who fears...
Line 9: Who would like to see...
Line 10: Resident of (your city, or state)
Line 11: Your last name
Week 8 - Oct. 4-8 - Personal Narratives: Maya Angelou's "Mrs. Flowers" from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Monday, 10-4
"Maya's Excellent Adventure"
>Maya Angelou Biography
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Tuesday, 10-5
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Read-Aloud of Maya Angelou's "Mrs. Flowers"
>Continuing to Get the GIST
Wednesday, 10-6
Write about someone who has shown you a great deal of kindness or taken time to spend with you. What did he or she do? How did it make you feel?
>Read-Aloud of Maya Angelou's "Mrs. Flowers"
>Cooperative Comprehension
Thursday, 10-7
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
>Summaries of what we've learned about Maya Angelou
In your Maya Angelou Essay, include the following:
Paragraph 1: Introduction: We have been learning about Maya Angelou... (how? video clip, Achieve3000 article, story written by her about her early years)
Paragraph 2: (video clip) example of transition/topic sentence: From the video clip I learned...
Paragraph 3: (Achieve3000 article) example of transition/topic sentence: During the article, I learned...
Paragraph 4: (Story) example of transition/topic sentence: From Angelou's own story, I learned...
Paragraph 5: Conclusion: example of transition/topic sentence: The most interesting things I learned about Maya Angelou were... or From what I learned about Maya Angelou, I feel...
Friday, 10-8
Silent Reading (10 minutes)
Maya Angelou Essay Due Today
>Grammar Lesson: Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-ons
>Revising thought question from "Maya's Excellent Adventure"
>CHOOSE TWO WORDS that you would use to tell about Maya Angelou. Explain why you picked each word. Use examples from the story in your answer. Use your own ideas as well.
Week 9 - Oct. 11-15 - Personal Narratives: Revising & Editing Your Own
Monday, 10-11
"Re-Writing Last Week's Thought Question" AND "Teen Sails Around the World"
>TYPE & REVISE Your Own Personal Narrative: Personal Features & Home
Thursday, 10-14
(shortened schedule for speaker)
>TYPE & REVISE Your Own Personal Narrative: Your Defining Moment/Memory & Your Future
Friday, 10-15
>TYPE & REVISE Your Own Personal Narrative:
>YOUR PERSONAL NARRATIVE MUST BE COMPLETED TODAY
>WHEN YOU ARE DONE WITH YOUR TYPING, DECORATE THE COVER OF YOUR PERSONAL NARRATIVE
When done typing your personal narratives and decorating your cover, silently read.
Week 10 - Oct. 18-21 - Back to Basics: Writing Effectively
Monday, 10-18
"Talking with Pictures"
Silent Reading when you are done
Tuesday, 10-19
Silent Reading
GRAMMAR CHECK: SIMPLE SUBJECTS
>Sequence:
-Look at the poster and create a paragraph describing the sequence of pictures you see, elaborating on what is happening in each picture.
-Start your paragraph with the topic sentence, "Everyone should brush their teeth twice a day."
>SHARE YOUR PARAGRAPHS
>Compare & Contrast:
-Look at the picture and create a paragraph, using complete sentences to compare (describe what is similar) and contrast (describe what is different) about the elephants in the picture.
-Start out your sentence with the topic sentence, "Two elephants are pictured."
>HAND IN YOUR PARAGRAPHS
Wednesday, 10-20
>MY APOLOGIES, but I still have NO VOICE.
>THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND COOPERATION TODAY!!
>In an attempt to hopefully have a voice for this afternoon and evening's P-S-T conferences, I will not be speaking today.
>Please look at the two posters in front of the podium as you complete the following written work:
>Main Idea & Details:
-Look at the poster and create a paragraph summarizing the main idea and details that you see present in the picture.
-Start out your sentence with the topic sentence, "Fishing can be fun."
>SHARE YOUR PARAGRAPHS
>Character & Setting:
-Look at the picture and create a paragraph describing the characters (who is in the picture?) and the setting (where are they?) that you see in the picture.
-Use descriptive words to describe the characters and setting.
-Start out your sentence with the topic sentence, "Baseball can be a fun sport to learn."
>HAND IN YOUR PARAGRAPHS
When you have completed your two paragraphs and handed them in, read silently.
Thursday, 10-21
See the board for your new seating chart.
Silent Reading
GRAMMAR CHECK: Subject & Predicates
>Make Predictions:
-Look at the poster and create a paragraph to describe your predictions about this picture (Who are these people? What are these people doing? Where are they? Where are they going? What will they do later?)
-Start out your sentence with a topic sentence that starts out, "The people...".
>SHARE YOUR PARAGRAPHS
>Cause and Effect:
-Evaluate the pictures in the poster and create a paragraph that explains cause and effect (What is happening first and what effect does it cause?).
-Start out your sentence with the topic sentence, "People are bowling in a bowling alley."
>HAND IN YOUR PARAGRAPHS
Week 11 - Oct. 25-29 - Back to Basics: Writing Effectively (& ITEDs)
Monday, 10-25
Choose your own article for today through the search tool and complete all five components (pre-reading response, reading connections, activity, thought question, and poll)
WRITING TOGETHER:
>SHARE PARAGRAPHS FROM LAST WEEK
>Summarize:
-Look at the poster and create a paragraph summarizing what you see happening in the picture. Make sure you are summarizing only what you see, not what you think happened before or after the scene in the poster.
-Start out your sentence with a topic sentence that starts out, "A running race has been happening."
>Draw a Conclusion:
-Look at the poster and analyze what has happened in this picture.
-Create a paragraph that describes what conclusion you came to about the situation in the picture.
-Start your sentence with a topic sentence that begins, "The girl in the picture...".
Tuesday, 10-26
Move to the Media Center to begin I Have a Plan Iowa Surveys
Wednesday, 10-27
Move to the Media Center to complete I Have a Plan Iowa Surveys
Thursday, 10-28
Silent Reading 10 minutes
Daily Oral Language with your own sentences
>REVISE YOUR PARAGRAPHS FROM LAST WEEK
Friday, 10-29
Grammar VIDEO
GRAMMAR QUIZ
Week 12 - Nov. 1-5 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/1
"Love These Gloves"
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
1. my pet is named pepper
2. will john go with us
3. we rided to bills house in our car
Silent Reading
Tuesday, 11/2
Silent Reading
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
4. mr jones were in atlanta yesterday
5. me and kate went to the store
6. them boys was in chicago last week
Character & Characterization
Begin read-aloud of Holes.
Quick Draw what you picture in Chapter 1
Wednesday, 11/3
Silent Reading
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
7. i hitted the ball hard
8. can you brang that to me on Monday
Continue read-aloud of Holes - Chapters 2 & 3.
>Quick Write about Stanley's character.
Thursday, 11/4
Silent Reading
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
9. is your brother tony going
10. on Monday we visit my uncles farm
Continue reading Holes - Chapters 4 & 5.
Friday, 11/5
Daily Oral Language (DOL): QUIZ
Continue reading Holes Chapters 6 & 7.
Week 13 - Nov. 8-12 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/8
"Second Chances"
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
1. betty and me saw joan on halloween
2. i are angry
3. me and my brother play ball
Silent Reading
Tuesday, 11/9
Silent Reading
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
4. they was washing the car
5. them dogs like to eat
6. we comed to a high wall
Continue read-aloud of Holes.
>Quick Write about Zero's character.
Wednesday, 11/10
Silent Reading
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
7. mother she go to the store last night
8.he hitted the ball
Continue read-aloud of Holes.
Thursday, 11/11
Silent Reading
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
9. brenda and terry is coming to are house on tuesday
10. Kayla like kittens, austin like dogs.
Continue reading Holes.
Friday, 11/12
Daily Oral Language (DOL): QUIZ
Complete Chapters 10-11 Reflection of Holes.
>Begin watching the movie Holes.
Week 14 - Nov. 15-19 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/15
"Can You Dig It?"
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
1. my fathers car is outside
2. grandma sent us oranges apples and pears
3. jerrys book fell down
Silent Reading
Tuesday, 11/16
Silent Reading
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
4. my sister she like playing baseball
5. that man drawed a map for mrs brown
6. me and my parents finded a fluffy kitten
Continue read-aloud of Holes.
Wednesday, 11/17
Silent Reading
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
7. we was thirsty for some juice
8. leslie and me will go
Continue read-aloud of Holes.
Thursday, 11/18
Silent Reading
Daily Oral Language (DOL):
9. & 10. dear sally
i havent no gum to give you
your friend
betty
Quiz over chapters 1-14
Continue reading Holes.
Friday, 11/19
Daily Oral Language (DOL): QUIZ
Continue reading Holes.
Week 15 - Nov. 22--24 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/22
"A Man Changes Lives in Sudan"
Inductive Reasoning: Re-organize Friday's paragraph about the pizza party?
Continue read-aloud of Chapter 19 Holes.
Silent Reading
Tuesday, 11/23
Watch Holes movie.
Wednesday, 11/24
Continue read-aloud of Holes.
Continue watching Holes movie.
Thursday, 11-25 - NO SCHOOL- HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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Friday, 11-26 - NO SCHOOL - HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Week 16 - Nov. 29-Dec.3 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/29
Read your choice of the newest articles in your mail inbox
Inductive Reasoning: Re-organize Friday's paragraph about the pizza party?
Tuesday, 11/30
Inductive Reasoning: Re-organize Friday's paragraph about the pizza party?
Continue read-aloud of Holes, starting at Ch. 21 & completing reading responses.
Silent Reading
Wednesday, 12/1
Continue read-aloud of Holes & completing reading responses.
Roundtable descriptive paragraph - choose a character in our story and take turns in your group writing expressive sentences describing that character.
Continue watching Holes movie, if time allows.
Thursday, 12/2
Continue read-aloud of Holes & completing reading responses.
Expression Exercise
Silent Reading
Friday, 12/3
Continue read-aloud of Holes & completing reading responses.
Re-write your group's character description using different expressions, different syntax, different organization, and different words (synonyms).
Continue watching Holes movie, if time allows.
Week 17 - Dec.6-10 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 12/6
Continue read-aloud of Holes, starting at Chapter 27.
"Trapped on a Mountain"
Tuesday, 12/7
Begin class by completing the response journal for Chapter 30, where you tell the warden what you think about Zero's situation and why he probably won't be coming back for water like she thinks. Then get out another piece of paper so that you can paraphrase Chapter 33 as Mrs. Hartwig reads it. Remember that paraphrasing is not the same as summarizing. When you summarize, you tell the main points; when you paraphrase, you retell the same information in your own words.
Continue read-aloud of Holes & completing reading responses.
Silent Reading
Wednesday, 12/8
Continue read-aloud of Holes & completing reading responses.
Continue watching Holes movie.
Thursday, 12/9
Read Chapter 40 and complete reading response - DUE TOMORROW
Continue read-aloud of Holes & completing reading responses.
Summarize each chapter we read today & share out loud.
Silent Reading
Friday, 12/10
Chapter 40 Response Journal DUE TODAY
Continue read-aloud of Holes, starting at chapter 41 & completing reading responses.
Continue watching Holes movie.
Week 18 - Dec.13-17 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 12/13
Continue read-aloud of Holes, starting at Chapter 43.
Grade Check with each student
Tuesday, 12/14
Complete read-aloud of Holes, starting at Ch. 47, and then complete reading responses.
Silent Reading
Wednesday, 12/15 - Mrs. Hartwig will be gone.
4-paragraph essay DUE FRIDAY
Continue watching Holes movie.
Write a four-paragraph essay both comparing and contrasting the book to the movie. This means you should have what is similar between the book and the movie AND what is different. Your introductory paragraph should introduce the book and its author and end with a sentence something like the following: "There are both similarities and differences between the book and the movie." Then your two middle paragraphs should organize the similarities in one paragraph and the differences in the other paragraph. Then you should end your essay with a concluding paragraph that begins something like this: "Although the book and the movie have both similarities and differences, the plot of the story is about the same," and then end that paragraph with your opinion of the book, including why you liked or disliked the book.
Welcome to English ILA - Introduction to Language Arts!
Week 1 - August 17-20 - Know the Show:
Iowa Core: Listen for information & understandingReal-World Application: Mastering these listening & interaction skills will help you get along in school, home, work, and society.>Tuesday 8/17:
Grab a notebook/journal from your class box; grab a few markers, colors, etc. to decorate the front sheet of your journal (including your name); and then introduce yourself in your journal, telling what you feel is important for me to know.
*Mrs. Hartwig's Introduction
*View and discuss semester schedules, normal class routines, wiki, and work expectations
*Discuss classroom integrity
*Read aloud and share introductions.
*Look for independent reading book
>Wednesday 8/18:
>Discuss group discussion/group work & its significance in this class
>Community building activities to determine class rules
>Each group come up with a typical situation that happens in school each week and design a role play with both a respect and disrespect outcome - then discuss different actions
>Thursday 8/19:
Continue community building to determine class rules
>Consider what “rules,” as society defines them, are helpful in creating a good, safe, comfortable, and productive classroom?
Behavior (to classmates & teacher)Speech
Work ethic
Gum/candy/drinks
iPods/phones
Bathroom
????
>In groups, decide what you would like included in our classroom agreement.
Which “behaviors” from above?What about student-to-teacher expectations?
What about teacher-to-student expectations?
>Compose & print out contract of class rules for students/parents to sign.
DUE TOMORROW - Classroom Compact - Everyone bringing back their classroom compact signed by both student and parent will get the full 10 points AND a TREAT!
>Friday 8/20:
Iowa Core: Use a variety of skills and strategies to comprehend complex nonfiction & informational text.Real-World Application: Developing reading strategies and your reading-writing connections improves all your comprehension skills, whether it is in English, math, history, newspaper reading, work, or whatever you read and write about in the real world.
>Discuss Iowa Core & its relevance to students
>Interest Inventory http://www.quia.com/sv/333585.html
Week 2 - August 23-27 - Show the Know:
Iowa Core: 1) Use an effective writing process, 2) Write on demand, and 3) Adhere to conventions generally established in spelling, punctuation, grammar, usage, syntax, and styleReal-World Application: Developing and mastering grammar and writing skills increases your ability to effectively communicate in all other classes, in addition to work, civic, and personal life situations both now and as an adult.
>Monday 8/23:
2 things to remember when using Achieve3000:
1) Make sure your browser has allowed pop-ups from Empower3000.com;
2) Resize your window so that when you get to the Thought Question you will be able to refer to and see the pop-up window that shows the article you are writing about.
Iowa Core: Use a variety of skills and strategies to comprehend complex nonfiction & informational text.Real-World Application: Developing reading strategies and your reading-writing connections improves all your comprehension skills, whether it is in English, math, history, newspaper reading, work, or whatever you read and write about in the real world.
>Tuesday 8/24:
Listen to Mrs. Hartwig's jing
>Wednesday 8/25:
>Discuss Read-100-Books Pizza Party!
>Grammar Matters - Make the Connection:
What are the different parts of speech? Write an example of each.
>What do you know about GRAMMAR?
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>Grammar Games (Label Parts of Speech - Basketball Style)
>Thursday 8/26:
>Discuss the writing process and 6-traits writing (terms and rubrics).
#2: DUE BY END OF CLASS FRIDAY - Complete your writing assignment according to your own R.A.F.T. idea
>Friday 8/27:
R.A.F.T. writing assignment DUE TODAY
Week 3 - August 30-September 3 - COMMUNICATION:
>Monday 8/30:
J: When you deal with a customer service representative (either in person or over the phone), what are the ways that person helps you? What does he or she do that irritate you and make the situation worse?
>Communication Activity
>First, put pairs back to back on floor, one with a copy of a drawing and one with a white board and marker. The one with the drawing has to explain only verbally how to draw the drawing.>Communication Assessment: What did you discover helped you communicate effectively? What did you discover hurt your effective communication?
>Tuesday 8/31:
>Brainstorm mini-lesson >R.A.F.T. workshop
>Wednesday 9/1:
What different ways do you personally communicate (text, phone [cell or land], email, twitter, snail-mail, notes, heart-to-heart)? Whom do you communicate with and why? What is your favorite form of communication?
>Communication Model Presentation
DUE FRIDAY - Create your own model of the communication process that incorporates all the elements of communication and indicates the process (continuous) aspects of communication. Your model should be a specific example of a communication situation. You may draw, cut out magazine pictures, use photos - your choice.>Thursday 9/2:
>Verbal Communication
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>Verbal Communication Quick Draws>Verbal Communication Role Plays
DUE FRIDAY: Communication Process Model Project
>Friday 9/3:
>Share models with class
Week 4 - September 7-10 - LISTENING SKILLS:
>Monday 9/6: LABOR DAY
>Tuesday 9/7:
>Communication Process Workshop
>Wednesday 9/8:
>Good Listening Skills
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>Share: What makes a good listener?
What are things a good listener should do?
What are things that bad listeners do that make other people feel badly?
videos removed for enhanced speed>Try it Out:
Listener: Actively listen.
Speaker: Tell about a success you have experienced.
Observer: Make note of active listening skills used and give feedback.
>Thursday 9/9:
>Good Listening Skills
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Listener: Students actively listen to Mrs. Hartwig to see if what I'm saying verbally matches what I say non-verbally.
>How important is it that our verbal and our non-verbal match?
>Do we understand a speaker better if their non-verbal matches their verbal?
videos removed for enhanced speed>Try it Out:
Listener: Actively listen and then respond with an "I" response.
Speaker: Tell about the biggest challenge you faced in middle school.
Observer: Make note of active listening skills used and give feedback.
>Friday 9/10:
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>Try it Out:
Male/Female Listeners: Actively listen and write down your understanding.
Male/Female Speakers: Explain what your usual day consists of (your class schedule and what you usually do after school until bedtime).
>What differences do you see in the responses of the guys versus the gals?
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>Share: Did the differences Tracey talked about show up in the responses we got in our class ?
videos removed for enhanced speed
>Share: Why does empathy matter?
Week 5 - September 13-17 - DYNAMICS OF GROUP COMMUNICATIONS:
>Monday 9/13:
>Group Dynamics - Internet Social Networking: Is it different on the web?
>Listening Skills Review
*Communication process
*Strong Listening Skills
videos removed for enhanced speed>Tuesday 9/14:
>Group Dynamics - School: From a Student Perspective
videos removed for enhanced speed>Think about the kind of listening skills you use in group discussions that are different than or similar to those you use when you are listening and speaking one-on-one. Describe 3 strong communication skills you use in group discussions in class and explain whether they are different than or similar to those skills you would use in one-on-one communication. (Use complete sentences.)
>Think about some feelings you experience when you are in whole class or small group discussions in school. Describe 3 examples of communication (either good or bad) that happen in class discussions and describe how they make you feel. (Use complete sentences.)>Think about some feelings you experience when you are in whole group situations in a school setting but not in a class. Describe 3 examples of communication (either good or bad) that happen in non-class situations in school and describe how they make you feel (e.g. lunch, class meetings, study hall, passing time). (Use complete sentences.)
>Think about some feelings you experience when you are in group discussions in a new place or one you are not used to. Evaluate and explain how you normally communicate and interact with people in places either new to you or places you are not used to or not comfortable in. (Use at least 3 complete sentences.)
>Wednesday 9/15:
Complete your questions from yesterday's Group Dynamics assignment.
>Group Dynamics - Social: The Roles We Play
>GUEST SPEAKER: JUDY KAY
*GATE KEEPER - keeps communication moving; invites input from different group members; asks others to "hold that thought" to give others a chance to talk
*ENCOURAGER - offers compliments; encourages people to speak up; offers praise
*HARMONIZER - smooths differences; suggests compromises, eases tensions
*INITIATOR - idea person; offers ideas; brings up new points
*INFORMATION SEEKER - asks questions; points out missing information
*WITHDRAWER - sits back and withholds ideas; closes down; shares only brief comments
*JOKER - draws attention to self through jokes and pranks
*BLOCKER - interrupts; shuts down ideas before they can be explored
*DOMINATOR - talks too much (more than one's share); pushes own ideas over others' ideas
>Thursday 9/16:
>Group Dynamics - Public: From an Authority Perspective
>GUEST SPEAKER: Cass County Deputy Sheriff Corey Larsen
>Friday 9/17
>The dynamics of group work: Apply what you've learned in PLAYING GAMES!
Week 6 - September 20-24 - Personal Narratives: Richard Wright's "The Night I Won the Rights to the Streets of Memphis"
Monday, 9-20
>Summarize three times during your reading
Tuesday, 9-21
>Read Aloud Richard Wright's "The Night I Won the Rights to the Streets of Memphis"
>Continuing to Get the GIST
Wednesday, 9-22
>Read Aloud Richard Wright's "The Night I Won the Rights to the Streets of Memphis"
>Continuing to Get the GIST
Thursday, 9-23
>Summaries of "The Night I Won the Rights to the Streets of Memphis"
Friday, 9-24
Grammar Games
Week 7 - Sept. 27- Oct. 1 - Personal Narratives: Your Own Story
Monday, 9-27
>Richard Wright's Personal Narrative: Review his story & learn more
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>Preparing your ROUGH DRAFT of your own personal narrative:
Paragraph 1: Introducing yourself
Paragraph 2: Things you like to do
Paragraph 3: Your family
Paragraph 4: Your best friend
Wednesday, 9-29
>Your Own Personal Narrative ROUGH DRAFT:
Paragraph 5: What you look like
Paragraph 6: Your home
Paragraph 7: An important memory of a person or an event that has influenced who you are today
Thursday, 9-30
>Your Own Personal Narrative:
Paragraph 8: Your Future (marriage, career, home, life, activities, etc.)
Friday, 10-1
>Your Own Personal Narrative: Autobiographical Poem
Line 1: Your first nameLine 2: Four traits that describe you
Line 3: Sibling of...
Line 4: Who likes (people, ideas)
Line 5: Who feels...
Line 6: Who needs....
Line 7: Who gives...
Line 8: Who fears...
Line 9: Who would like to see...
Line 10: Resident of (your city, or state)
Line 11: Your last name
Week 8 - Oct. 4-8 - Personal Narratives: Maya Angelou's "Mrs. Flowers" from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Monday, 10-4
>Maya Angelou Biography
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>Read-Aloud of Maya Angelou's "Mrs. Flowers"
>Continuing to Get the GIST
Wednesday, 10-6
>Read-Aloud of Maya Angelou's "Mrs. Flowers"
>Cooperative Comprehension
Thursday, 10-7
>Summaries of what we've learned about Maya Angelou
In your Maya Angelou Essay, include the following:
Paragraph 1: Introduction: We have been learning about Maya Angelou... (how? video clip, Achieve3000 article, story written by her about her early years)
Paragraph 2: (video clip) example of transition/topic sentence: From the video clip I learned...
Paragraph 3: (Achieve3000 article) example of transition/topic sentence: During the article, I learned...
Paragraph 4: (Story) example of transition/topic sentence: From Angelou's own story, I learned...
Paragraph 5: Conclusion: example of transition/topic sentence: The most interesting things I learned about Maya Angelou were... or From what I learned about Maya Angelou, I feel...
Friday, 10-8
>Grammar Lesson: Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-ons
>Revising thought question from "Maya's Excellent Adventure"
>CHOOSE TWO WORDS that you would use to tell about Maya Angelou. Explain why you picked each word. Use examples from the story in your answer. Use your own ideas as well.
Week 9 - Oct. 11-15 - Personal Narratives: Revising & Editing Your Own
Monday, 10-11
>Complete Sentence Wrap-Up from last Friday
Tuesday, 10-12
Wednesday, 10-13
Thursday, 10-14
(shortened schedule for speaker)
Friday, 10-15
>TYPE & REVISE Your Own Personal Narrative:
>YOUR PERSONAL NARRATIVE MUST BE COMPLETED TODAY
>WHEN YOU ARE DONE WITH YOUR TYPING, DECORATE THE COVER OF YOUR PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Week 10 - Oct. 18-21 - Back to Basics: Writing Effectively
Monday, 10-18
Tuesday, 10-19
>Sequence:
-Look at the poster and create a paragraph describing the sequence of pictures you see, elaborating on what is happening in each picture.
-Start your paragraph with the topic sentence, "Everyone should brush their teeth twice a day."
>SHARE YOUR PARAGRAPHS
>Compare & Contrast:
-Look at the picture and create a paragraph, using complete sentences to compare (describe what is similar) and contrast (describe what is different) about the elephants in the picture.
-Start out your sentence with the topic sentence, "Two elephants are pictured."
>HAND IN YOUR PARAGRAPHS
Wednesday, 10-20
>MY APOLOGIES, but I still have NO VOICE.
>THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND COOPERATION TODAY!!
>In an attempt to hopefully have a voice for this afternoon and evening's P-S-T conferences, I will not be speaking today.
>Please look at the two posters in front of the podium as you complete the following written work:
>Main Idea & Details:
-Look at the poster and create a paragraph summarizing the main idea and details that you see present in the picture.
-Start out your sentence with the topic sentence, "Fishing can be fun."
>SHARE YOUR PARAGRAPHS
>Character & Setting:
-Look at the picture and create a paragraph describing the characters (who is in the picture?) and the setting (where are they?) that you see in the picture.
-Use descriptive words to describe the characters and setting.
-Start out your sentence with the topic sentence, "Baseball can be a fun sport to learn."
>HAND IN YOUR PARAGRAPHS
Thursday, 10-21
>Make Predictions:
-Look at the poster and create a paragraph to describe your predictions about this picture (Who are these people? What are these people doing? Where are they? Where are they going? What will they do later?)
-Start out your sentence with a topic sentence that starts out, "The people...".
>SHARE YOUR PARAGRAPHS
>Cause and Effect:
-Evaluate the pictures in the poster and create a paragraph that explains cause and effect (What is happening first and what effect does it cause?).
-Start out your sentence with the topic sentence, "People are bowling in a bowling alley."
>HAND IN YOUR PARAGRAPHS
Week 11 - Oct. 25-29 - Back to Basics: Writing Effectively (& ITEDs)
Monday, 10-25
WRITING TOGETHER:
>SHARE PARAGRAPHS FROM LAST WEEK
>Summarize:
-Look at the poster and create a paragraph summarizing what you see happening in the picture. Make sure you are summarizing only what you see, not what you think happened before or after the scene in the poster.
-Start out your sentence with a topic sentence that starts out, "A running race has been happening."
>Draw a Conclusion:
-Look at the poster and analyze what has happened in this picture.
-Create a paragraph that describes what conclusion you came to about the situation in the picture.
-Start your sentence with a topic sentence that begins, "The girl in the picture...".
Tuesday, 10-26
Wednesday, 10-27
Thursday, 10-28
>REVISE YOUR PARAGRAPHS FROM LAST WEEK
Friday, 10-29
Week 12 - Nov. 1-5 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/1
1. my pet is named pepper
2. will john go with us
3. we rided to bills house in our car
Tuesday, 11/2
4. mr jones were in atlanta yesterday
5. me and kate went to the store
6. them boys was in chicago last week
Character & Characterization
Quick Draw what you picture in Chapter 1
Wednesday, 11/3
7. i hitted the ball hard
8. can you brang that to me on Monday
>Quick Write about Stanley's character.
Thursday, 11/4
9. is your brother tony going
10. on Monday we visit my uncles farm
Friday, 11/5
Week 13 - Nov. 8-12 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/8
1. betty and me saw joan on halloween
2. i are angry
3. me and my brother play ball
Tuesday, 11/9
4. they was washing the car
5. them dogs like to eat
6. we comed to a high wall
>Quick Write about Zero's character.
Wednesday, 11/10
7. mother she go to the store last night
8.he hitted the ball
Thursday, 11/11
9. brenda and terry is coming to are house on tuesday
10. Kayla like kittens, austin like dogs.
Friday, 11/12
>Begin watching the movie Holes.
Week 14 - Nov. 15-19 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/15
1. my fathers car is outside
2. grandma sent us oranges apples and pears
3. jerrys book fell down
Tuesday, 11/16
4. my sister she like playing baseball
5. that man drawed a map for mrs brown
6. me and my parents finded a fluffy kitten
Wednesday, 11/17
7. we was thirsty for some juice
8. leslie and me will go
Thursday, 11/18
9. & 10. dear sally
i havent no gum to give you
your friend
betty
Friday, 11/19
Week 15 - Nov. 22--24 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/22
Inductive Reasoning: Re-organize Friday's paragraph about the pizza party?
Tuesday, 11/23
Wednesday, 11/24
Thursday, 11-25 - NO SCHOOL- HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Friday, 11-26 - NO SCHOOL - HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Week 16 - Nov. 29-Dec.3 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 11/29
Tuesday, 11/30
Inductive Reasoning: Re-organize Friday's paragraph about the pizza party?
Wednesday, 12/1
Thursday, 12/2
Friday, 12/3
Week 17 - Dec.6-10 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 12/6
Tuesday, 12/7
Begin class by completing the response journal for Chapter 30, where you tell the warden what you think about Zero's situation and why he probably won't be coming back for water like she thinks. Then get out another piece of paper so that you can paraphrase Chapter 33 as Mrs. Hartwig reads it. Remember that paraphrasing is not the same as summarizing. When you summarize, you tell the main points; when you paraphrase, you retell the same information in your own words.
Wednesday, 12/8
Thursday, 12/9
Friday, 12/10
Week 18 - Dec.13-17 - Louis Sachar's Holes
Monday, 12/13
Tuesday, 12/14
Wednesday, 12/15 - Mrs. Hartwig will be gone.
Thursday, 12/16
>Semester In Review:
2010 Semester 1 Review
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Discuss what we've done this semester and what the semester test will be like.
Friday, 12/17
>Semester In Review:
Discuss what we've done this semester and what the semester test will be like.
Week 19 - December 20-25 Semester Final Projects
Monday, 12-20
>Semester In Review:
Discuss what we've done this semester and what the semester test will be like.
Tuesday, 12-21 - Semester Exams for periods 1, 3, 5 & 7
>Semester Test
Wednesday, 12-22 - Semester Exams for periods 2, 4 & 6
Enjoy a very merry, blessed, and relaxing Christmas break!!
WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL and SEMESTER 2!!!!
Week 19 - Jan. 5-7 - :
Wednesday 1/5/11: